Alert archive / California / Sierra County

Weather alerts in Sierra County, California, 2011

72 weather alerts in 2011, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Sierra County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 72
Warnings: 12
Watches: 13
Advisories: 31
Busiest month: March17 alerts
Busiest day: September 11, 20115 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

Sierra County, 2011

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio
Tornado warnings	0
Severe thunderstorm warnings	4	0	100%
Flash flood warnings	0

Each office's whole area, 2011

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Reno, NV: tornado warnings	1	0	100%	1	0%
NWS Reno, NV: severe thunderstorm warnings	8	0	100%	6	0%
NWS Reno, NV: flash flood warnings	9	2	78%	8	38%	66 min
NWS Sacramento, CA: tornado warnings	10	4	60%	16	44%	19 min
NWS Sacramento, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings	18	3	83%	7	57%	19 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Pacific Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 7, 2:09 PM PST	Freezing Fog Advisory	REV	22 hr
Feb 12, 3:13 PM PST	High Wind Watch	REV	24 hr
Feb 13, 3:29 PM PST	High Wind Warning	REV	61 hr
Feb 13, 3:29 PM PST	Winter Storm Watch	REV	48 hr
Feb 14, 3:14 PM PST	Winter Storm Warning	REV	55 hr
Feb 15, 5:17 PM PST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	6 hr
Feb 16, 10:13 PM PST	Winter Storm Warning	REV	59 hr
Feb 18, 8:41 AM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	REV	24 hr
Feb 22, 3:15 PM PST	Winter Storm Watch	REV	24 hr
Feb 23, 3:25 PM PST	Winter Storm Warning	REV	60 hr
Feb 24, 5:15 PM PST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	6 hr
Mar 6, 4:08 AM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	REV	24 hr
Mar 12, 1:38 PM PST	Wind Advisory	REV	38 hr
Mar 14, 3:22 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	REV	37 hr
Mar 15, 4:20 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	REV	35 hr
Mar 15, 7:56 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	STO	6 hr
Mar 16, 3:25 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	STO	18 hr
Mar 17, 3:54 AM PDT	Winter Storm Watch	REV	11 hr
Mar 17, 3:16 PM PDT	Winter Storm Warning	REV	41 hr
Mar 18, 9:26 AM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	4 hr
Mar 19, 4:06 AM PDT	Winter Storm Watch	REV	13 hr
Mar 19, 3:17 PM PDT	Winter Storm Warning	REV	37 hr
Mar 21, 3:07 PM PDT	Winter Storm Watch	REV	21 hr
Mar 22, 11:54 AM PDT	Winter Storm Watch	REV	28 hr
Mar 22, 11:54 AM PDT	Winter Storm Warning	REV	71 hr
Mar 24, 9:58 AM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	4 hr
Mar 25, 4:38 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	REV	35 hr
Mar 27, 3:04 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	REV	19 hr
Apr 6, 5:00 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	REV	33 hr
Apr 24, 3:26 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	REV	29 hr
May 8, 3:05 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	REV	16 hr
May 15, 3:16 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	REV	36 hr
May 17, 3:29 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	REV	27 hr
May 26, 4:22 PM PDT	Lake Wind Advisory	REV	28 hr
May 27, 2:29 PM PDT	Lake Wind Advisory	REV	30 hr
May 28, 4:01 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	REV	23 hr
Jun 20, 11:30 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	REV	4 days
Jun 22, 3:43 PM PDT	Lake Wind Advisory	REV	29 hr
Jun 27, 3:41 PM PDT	Lake Wind Advisory	REV	31 hr
Jun 28, 3:10 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	REV	39 hr
Jul 5, 3:32 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	28 min
Jul 5, 4:15 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	45 min
Jul 5, 4:33 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	42 min
Jul 6, 2:30 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	30 min
Jul 6, 3:04 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	REV	56 min
Jul 6, 5:19 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	41 min
Jul 11, 3:45 PM PDT	Lake Wind Advisory	REV	29 hr
Jul 24, 2:50 PM PDT	Lake Wind Advisory	REV	30 hr
Aug 23, 2:23 PM PDT	Fire Weather Watch	REV	19 hr
Sep 6, 11:55 AM PDT	Fire Weather Watch	REV	26 hr
Sep 7, 1:50 PM PDT	Red Flag Warning	REV	21 hr
Sep 11, 1:34 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	STO	41 min
Sep 11, 2:58 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	32 min
Sep 11, 3:58 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	47 min
Sep 11, 4:11 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	STO	34 min
Sep 11, 4:58 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	62 min
Sep 12, 3:58 AM PDT	Flash Flood Watch	REV	18 hr
Sep 12, 3:33 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	STO	42 min
Sep 12, 4:05 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	40 min
Sep 13, 1:53 AM PDT	Flash Flood Watch	REV	20 hr
Sep 13, 7:13 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	STO	47 min
Sep 13, 7:30 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	30 min
Sep 13, 7:50 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	STO	40 min
Sep 13, 8:29 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	STO	61 min
Oct 2, 3:07 PM PDT	Winter Storm Watch	REV	25 hr
Nov 2, 3:40 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	REV	36 hr
Nov 4, 2:56 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	REV	42 hr
Nov 17, 12:14 PM PST	Wind Advisory	REV	28 hr
Nov 17, 2:33 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	REV	31 hr
Nov 22, 2:57 PM PST	Wind Advisory	REV	28 hr
Dec 28, 2:39 PM PST	High Wind Watch	REV	25 hr
Dec 29, 3:22 PM PST	Wind Advisory	REV	28 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	4
Mesoscale Discussion	4
Special Weather Statement	12
Flooding
Flash Flood Watch	2
Areal Flood Advisory	5
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	6
Winter Storm Watch	7
Winter Weather Advisory	12
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	1
High Wind Watch	2
Lake Wind Advisory	6
Wind Advisory	7
Fire
Red Flag Warning	1
Fire Weather Watch	2
Fog and smoke
Freezing Fog Advisory	1

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.